J Michael Walton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Michael Walton |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5182-6967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
They are not all wolves
Before the 2020 publication of Elana K. Arnold's Red Hood and Sarah Cuthew's Blood Moon, Judy Blume's 1970 novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, which ends with the heroine praising God for blessing her with menarche, was one of the only young adult novels to feature menstruation as a central theme. This paper opens with a brief overview of recent English and American menstrual activism and a discussion of scholarly considerations of the me…
Found in Translation
Euripides our Contemporary
In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today’s translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for Euripides, but why we so desperately need him.’ Mary Louise Hart, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum ‘A useful, reader-friendly introduction aimed at non-specialists, [it] offers d…
‘Enough Give in It’
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Translating the Stage Play The Spirit of the Original Aeschylus and The Oresteia Sophocles and the Common Man Euripides and the New Realism Conclusion
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Amid our troubles
New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concen…
Realising Menander
What follows is an account of the production of Menander’s The Woman from Samos directed with a professional company at the J Paul Getty Museum in Malibu in the autumn of 1994. The play was part of a doublebill, the second half of which was Plautus’ Casina. As translator of the Menander I served as dramaturg to the production while Richard Beacham undertook the same function for the Plautus.
Sophocles’ Electra
There is nothing unusual about a theatre director appearing reluctant to discuss a play which that director knows from the page but not from the rehearsal process. For a teacher of classical theatre to be equally diffident is more of a novelty. It is perhaps a tribute to the manner in which both the academic critic and the theatre practitioner have in recent years widened their horizons that it is possible for the two worlds of classical scholars…
Living Greek Theatre
Preface Part 1: The Present and the Past Greek Drama: Why? Greek Drama: How? Part 2: Tragedy Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Tragedy in Rome Part 3: Comedy Aristophanes Menander Comedy in Rome Part 4: Critics and Commentators Plato Aristotle Horace Vitruvius Lucian Athenaeus Pollux Part 5: Revival Greece by Aliki Bakopoulou-Halls Europe by Richard Beacham England North America by Peter D. Arnott Appendix A: Plays in Brief Appendix B: Chronology App…
Craig on Theatre
Living Greek Theatre
Preface Part 1: The Present and the Past Greek Drama: Why? Greek Drama: How? Part 2: Tragedy Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Tragedy in Rome Part 3: Comedy Aristophanes Menander Comedy in Rome Part 4: Critics and Commentators Plato Aristotle Horace Vitruvius Lucian Athenaeus Pollux Part 5: Revival Greece by Aliki Bakopoulou-Halls Europe by Richard Beacham England North America by Peter D. Arnott Appendix A: Plays in Brief Appendix B: Chronology App…
Craig on Theatre
Living Greek Theatre
Preface Part 1: The Present and the Past Greek Drama: Why? Greek Drama: How? Part 2: Tragedy Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Tragedy in Rome Part 3: Comedy Aristophanes Menander Comedy in Rome Part 4: Critics and Commentators Plato Aristotle Horace Vitruvius Lucian Athenaeus Pollux Part 5: Revival Greece by Aliki Bakopoulou-Halls Europe by Richard Beacham England North America by Peter D. Arnott Appendix A: Plays in Brief Appendix B: Chronology App…
Sophocles’ Electra
There is nothing unusual about a theatre director appearing reluctant to discuss a play which that director knows from the page but not from the rehearsal process. For a teacher of classical theatre to be equally diffident is more of a novelty. It is perhaps a tribute to the manner in which both the academic critic and the theatre practitioner have in recent years widened their horizons that it is possible for the two worlds of classical scholars…
Realising Menander
What follows is an account of the production of Menander’s The Woman from Samos directed with a professional company at the J Paul Getty Museum in Malibu in the autumn of 1994. The play was part of a doublebill, the second half of which was Plautus’ Casina. As translator of the Menander I served as dramaturg to the production while Richard Beacham undertook the same function for the Plautus.
Amid our troubles
New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concen…
‘Enough Give in It’
This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Translating the Stage Play The Spirit of the Original Aeschylus and The Oresteia Sophocles and the Common Man Euripides and the New Realism Conclusion
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Found in Translation
Euripides our Contemporary
In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today’s translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for Euripides, but why we so desperately need him.’ Mary Louise Hart, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum ‘A useful, reader-friendly introduction aimed at non-specialists, [it] offers d…
They are not all wolves
Before the 2020 publication of Elana K. Arnold's Red Hood and Sarah Cuthew's Blood Moon, Judy Blume's 1970 novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, which ends with the heroine praising God for blessing her with menarche, was one of the only young adult novels to feature menstruation as a central theme. This paper opens with a brief overview of recent English and American menstrual activism and a discussion of scholarly considerations of the me…
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